7 People Skills – Team Composition
Most of us as managers are prone to one particular failing: a tendency to manage people as though they were modular components. It’s obvious enough where this tendency comes from. Consider the preparation we had for the task of management: We were judged to be good management material because we performed well as doers, technicians, and developers. That often involved organizing our resources into modular pieces, such as software routines, circuits, or other units of work. The modules we constructed were made to exhibit a black-box characteristic, so that their internal idiosyncrasies could be safely ignored. They were desired to be used with a standard interface.
After years of reliance on these modular methods, ...
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